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floral embellishments in the form of oak leaves on the bell, hint at an origin in Saxony,
probably Markneukirchen; the two cities mentioned in the signature, then, most likely are
only of places of retail. The German origin of this cornopean is confirmed by the markings
on the Bf shank, “B,” and the Ef crook, “Es,” the German nomenclature for these notes.
Two very early Stölzel-valve cornopeans in the Brussels museum are signed by Charles
Joseph Sax, Brussels. They were built after 1830, presumably in 1833 or 1834. 16 Both
instruments have very simple valve slides, consisting not of a U-turn and separate inner
slides, but only of simple U-bows without further refinement (Drawing 1).
Drawing 1
Valve slides in cornopeans of Charles Joseph Sax (left), compared to the later
construction of moving inner slides, still in use today (right).
Ten instruments have the later Stölzel valve construction, in which the horizontal screw
is omitted and the spring is enclosed in a barrel or capsule on top of the piston. Instruments
of this type from the 1830s, ’40s, and ’50s have been identified. Of these, eight are from
England, one is presumably from Markneukirchen, and one is from the workshop of
Andreas Barth in Munich (Figure 14a, b). Exactly the same cornet model is depicted in a
bilingual price list of Barth’s son, Johann Baptist Barth (see Figure 44 below) and was also
offered by Johann Georg Saurle in a price list from ca. 1854. 17